Biochemistry Feb 11, 2025

Click chemistry method advances drug development with improved triazole synthesis

Middle molecules with a molecular weight of more than 1,000 are difficult to synthesize due to multiple steps and time-consuming nature, demanding the development of a new approach that can overcome these disadvantages.

Polymers Feb 14, 2025

Innovative porous organic crystal structure offers superior CO₂ separation

Porous organic crystals with superior properties as CO2 adsorbents were created by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo. Owing to the novel 2.5-dimensional skeleton, the materials feature ultrahigh-density amines. The ...

Earth Sciences Feb 14, 2025

Scientists use distant sensor to monitor American Samoa earthquake swarm

From late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, raising concerns of an imminent volcanic eruption or tsunami.

Plants & Animals Feb 13, 2025

Protected habitats aren't enough to save endangered species: Models show species are impacted by far-off threats

In tropical forests, endangered species inside protected habitats are still in danger from threats from beyond their sanctuaries, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Ilaria Greco and ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 11, 2025

Physicists achieve fully optical readout of superconducting qubits

Qubits—the fundamental units of quantum information—drive entire tech sectors. Among them, superconducting qubits could be instrumental in building a large-scale quantum computer, but they rely on electrical signals and ...

Ecology Feb 11, 2025

Research finds we're eating younger, smaller cod—and that matters

That bag of cod filets you pick up at the grocer comes from fish much likely much smaller and younger than its ancestors that were eaten by people in the distant past, according to a new study that includes a University of ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 13, 2025

World's largest digital microbe collection aims to transform health research

Researchers at University of Galway have created the world's largest collection of digital microbes—nearly a quarter million computer models—to help revolutionize our understanding of the human microbiome and its impact ...

Plasma Physics 1 hour ago

Nuclear fusion: WEST machine beats the world record for plasma duration

1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, was able to maintain a plasma for on 12 February. This ...

Plants & Animals Feb 12, 2025

Engineered animals show new way to fight mercury pollution

Australian scientists have found an effective new way to clean up methylmercury, one of the world's most dangerous pollutants, which often builds up in our food and environment because of industrial activities such as illegal ...

General Physics Feb 11, 2025

In a first, physicists set an upper limit in the search for hybrid mesons

Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and neutrons. For the first time, researchers have provided measurements describing a maximum boundary ...

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